Drought is a complex and multivariate phenomenon influenced by diverse physical and
biological processes. Such complexity precludes simplistic explanations of cause and effect …

The contrast between the point‐scale nature of current ground‐based soil moisture
instrumentation and the ground resolution (typically> 102 km2) of satellites used to retrieve …

Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and
extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential …

A severe agricultural drought swept Central Asia in 2021, causing mass die-offs of crops and
livestock. The anthropogenic contribution to declines in soil moisture in this region over …

Drought is expected to increase in frequency and severity in the future as a result of climate
change, mainly as a consequence of decreases in regional precipitation but also because of …

The existing remote sensing drought indices were mainly derived from optical and infrared
bands, and have been widely used in monitoring agricultural drought; however, their …

Droughts are a recurrent and natural part of the Australian hydroclimate, with evidence of
drought dating back thousands of years. However, our ability to monitor, attribute, forecast …

Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world.
Together with an increased demand for water resources to supply the world's growing …

Introduction This chapter synthesizes the scientific literature on the detection and attribution
of observed changes in natural and human systems in response to observed recent climate …

Vegetation greening and soil drying, which are simultaneously observed, have brought
controversy about whether vegetation greening leads to soil drying or wetting. Relevant …